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Number of times between [1990s|1998] and 2000 that errors or irregularities forced [Finance|publicly traded] firms to restate earnings

: 463

Number of the 31 [Senate|U.S. senators] facing [Democracy|reelection] this year for whom no challenger has yet been recruited

: 6

[Days|Days] earlier than in [1970s|1970] that [WashingtonDC|Washington, D.C.], cherry blossoms now bloom

: 6

Percentage by which [Science|genetically modified] seeds increase a [Agriculture|farm’s] economic yield, according to a study of 300 [Iowa|Iowa] farms

: 0

Price that a [Canada|Canadian] firm charges for a ten-inch cement “[Gnome|Garden Liberal]” resembling Prime Minister Jean Chretien

: $50

Estimated total number of [Diet|calories] [Congress|Congress] burned giving [GeorgeWBush|Bush’s] last address 46 standing ovations

: 22,000

Number of times “[AxisOfEvil|evil]” has been cited in State of the Union addresses by [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] and [BillClinton|Bill Clinton], respectively

: 5, 2

Estimated value of U.S. [Oil|crude-oil] imports from the region last year

: $19,000,000,000

Estimated amount the [UnitedStates|United States] spends each year safeguarding [Oil|oil] supplies in the [MiddleEast|Persian Gulf]

: $50,000,000,000

Rank of [China|China’s] military budget among the world’s largest that year

: 3

Ratio of the [GeorgeWBush|President’s] proposed increase in [USMilitary|U.S. military] spending to [China|China’s] total military budget in 2000

: 1:1

[Minutes|Minutes] before the [GeorgeWBush|President] spoke at a [Business|jobs] program last [Winter|winter] that [Democracy|protesters] heard the event had been canceled

: 10

[Days|Days] later that he presented a budget proposal cutting the funding of such programs by 80 percent

: 30

Amount that U.S. companies are projected to [Taxes|write off] this year to account for devalued acquisitions

: $1,000,000,000,000

Number of times this happened in the seven previous years

: 359

Number of years that the University of [Missouri|Missouri’s] [Enron|Kenneth L. Lay] Chair in International [Economics|Economics] has been vacant

: 3.5

Number of [Argentina|Argentina’s] 17 presidents since [1950s|1958] who have completed a full term

: 1

Number of former Khmer Rouge officers whom [Cambodia|Cambodia] has tried

: 0

Number of [Israel|Israeli] military personnel [Prison|jailed] since [September|September] 2000 for refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories

: 34

Minimum number of [Israel|Israeli] high [Education|school] [Student|students] who wrote Prime Minister [ArielSharon|Ariel Sharon] last [Fall|fall] to refuse in [Business|advance]

: 62

Percentage of first-year U.S. [College|college] [Student|students] in [1980s|1981] and 2001, respectively, with “middle-of-the-road” politics

: 57, 50

Percentage with “liberal” or “[Hippies|far-left]” politics in those years

: 21, 30

Chances that a country recently cited by the [Pentagon|Pentagon] as a potential U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear] target has no nuclear arms

: 5 in 7

Number who avoided charges after being forgiven by a [Girl|girlfriend] for breaking into her house

: 1

Number who have been ticketed for [Sex|sexual] misconduct

: 1

Number of [GeorgeHWBush|George H.W. Bush’s] five adult grandchildren who have been [Justice|arrested]

: 3

Minimum number of violations for which the [Finance|Securities and Exchange Commission] cited [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] in the same year

: 4

Fine paid by Neil [GeorgeWBush|Bush] in [1990s|1991] after federal regulators found him guilty of “ethical lapses”

: $50,000

Amount a Silverado executive later stole from his investment firm per day of his three and a half years in [Prison|jail]

: $5,000

Ratio of the average [S&LCrisis|S&L] [Prison|jail] term awarded in those years to the average term for a federal [Crime|burglary] conviction

: 2:3

Number of people charged between [1980s|1988] and [1990s|1992] in connection with the U.S. [Finance|savings and loan collapse]

: 1,098

Months that a [Colorado|Denver] [Literature|bookstore] has been refusing court orders to identify a buyer of a book about making [Drugs|illegal drugs]

: 22

Minimum number of calls the [FBI|F.B.I.] received last [Winter|winter] from [Utah|Utah] residents claiming to have seen [OsamaBinLaden|Osama bin Laden]

: 20

Estimated number of [Minutes|minutes] to which he says the country’s new administration will reduce such hanging time

: 15

[Days|Days] that the [Taliban|Taliban] left bodies [Justice|hanging] after an execution, according to a judge in the new government

: 4

Number of accidents the U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear] submarine that capsized a [Japan|Japanese] [Fishing|fishing] boat last year has had since then

: 2

Pages of [HenryKissinger|Henry Kissinger’s] White House records first released to the public last [Winter|winter]

: 20,000

Number of these who were [Journalism|journalists]

: 6

Number of visitors to a [LasVegas|Las Vegas] consumer-electronics show last [Winter|winter] who opted to be [Crime|shot] with a stun [Gun|gun]

: 120

Amount the [Justice|Justice] Department spent in [November|November] installing curtains to cover two seminude statues of Justice

: $8,650
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